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In previous versions of windows calling Lock on the primary surface in directdraw would grab the win16mutex and prevent other apps from using DirectDraw/GDI to update any portion of the screen until...

OK, I guess to talking to myself isn't much fun, but here comes some more.

I have figured out what I was (obviously) doing wrong at first. I needed to just create a backbuffer of the...

Yeah, they have, and boy was it ever annoying :) I cannot imagine a more annoying and hostile user interface than a smiley face window with shifty eyes that follow the cursor. :)

OK, I have figured out what was causing the crash. The primary surface was not being created (my call to CreateSurface failed), and I have even figured out how to fix it. I changed this
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OK, I've never used the debugger before, but I just tried it, and it shows that at the time my app crashes, lpPrimary is NULL (actually 000000(whole bunch O' nuttin)). This looks like the problem to...

I am new to C++. (I hate it and would prefer using plain C, but can't figure out how to use plain C and directx or directdraw. ) I am going through the tuts from...

adrianxw,
I tried using the library and include you mentioned instead (winsock2), but it made no difference at all. It just compiled and ran the same. It was worth a shot though :)

Whoever,...

"Could also mean that the people who replied later don't use the same IDE/compiler as you and did not want to make things worse for you by suggesting things that were inappropriate. Nothing...

WTF!!! I just tried using IE6 instead of using Mozilla like I had been, and now it works fine! I dont get it! Mozilla 1.3 does not work and IE6 does. Now I'm even more confused. I need to go read...

OK. I noted that several people who posted after I did got responses before I did. Usually this means that i didn't provide enough information for people to help me. So, here goes.

The following...

Howdy all. I am having some serious trouble using Bloodshed dev-cpp to compile an example winsock server I got from the web and messed around with a little bit. I am not sure what I'm doing wrong but...

I think what you need to do is call CreateDC with the first argument set to "DISPLAY" and the rest set to NULL. Then just use that as your window handle and you can bitblit till your hearts content....

OK, i have modified my code as follows, and now after when I call readfile (right after "perror("5 1/2");" the application stops responding. Is this some kind of default behavior for readfile under...

Hello! This is my first post to this board, however I have been lurkiing and using the search function for assistance for some time. I am hoping that someone will be kind enough to help me with a...